Originally Posted by
lorcancoyle
Short answer - no
Long answer a variation on same theme - re regional flights, BA is a major shareholder in flybe
I do wonder about the ongoing viability of Flybe. I have yet to take any flight out of SOU on one that is more than 50% full, except a recent one to AMS on the early Monday morning flight.
I flew to DUS today, mid afternoon, flight gets in at 17:00 - this flight is now the only daily flight from SOU to DUS and there is no longer one at all to FRA either. Thought it would be reasonably busy with folks needing to get to this key German business region for early Monday morning....but there were just 34 of us on a 78 seater plane.
From my experience and being a regular on the AMS, ORY, DUB, DUS and MAN routes from SOU these loads are very typical for Flybe.